A few weeks ago I covered the new cohort of social activities sites. In the subcategory of basic events listing services, notably comprising Upcoming.org, Zvents, and Eventful, I neglected to include BusyTonight. Ironically, I missed it despite the presence of an active blog on which developers write thoughtfully about the philosophy and execution […]

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A few weeks ago, Om Malik did a highly unscientific graphic comparison of second life and real life. Well, real life sucks, and it is in the after life where harems of virgins await us. (…await the virtuous men. Who knows what women want?) So for round two, we do a […]

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As casual planning startup Renkoo revs up in closed Beeta (pronounced Bee-tah), UK based Renzoo launched this week a beta of its unified messaging platform. Apparently Ren-ness was in the air the latter half of 2004: both domains were registered a month apart, Renzoo.com on Aug 27, 2004 and Renkoo.com on Oct 28, […]

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Trillian, if you don’t know, is an instant messaging client that works with the AOL AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, and IRC chat systems, any or all at the same time, channeling your chat activity through one interface. Spokeo, founded by three Stanford guys, applies the same concept of tributary merging to the proliferation of […]

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